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T28: Silver sixteenth-shekel, struck at Sidon in the name of the satrap Mazaios, 336/5 BC.
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Planning the New Basilica
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V.3 Grammar: a window on the ancient world
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Украинские рубашки-вышиванки на Советском Памире (Таджикистан)
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Justus Lipsius (1547-1606)
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William Lisle Bowles, Fourteen sonnets (Bath, 1789)
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III.4 The Three Higher Faculties: Medicine, Law, and Theology
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 392-3)
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Robert Hooke, 'Micrographia' (1665)
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Drawing of a Saami settlement on Lake Hammasjarvi
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Islamic Alchemy: A Primer
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Johanninpoika Marataja
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Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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From apothecary shop to cabinet of curiosities
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The mechanical clock: origin and purpose
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Astronomical tower clocks
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Title page of Through Bosnia and the Herzegóvina on Foot... (1876)
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II.1 Where, and what, was the university?
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Wooden Shield
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Georg Christoph Stirn, 1638
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‘Outline of Tracery’
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T18: Silver siglos, “King half-length” Carradice Type 1.
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Riemann surface
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Frans Post, A Sugar Mill Driven by a Small River (c.1650-1655)
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